diff --git a/dev-php/PEAR-Archive_Tar/Manifest b/dev-php/PEAR-Archive_Tar/Manifest
index 5e18bf6c0120..efa2e4a5dc0d 100644
--- a/dev-php/PEAR-Archive_Tar/Manifest
+++ b/dev-php/PEAR-Archive_Tar/Manifest
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
 DIST Archive_Tar-1.5.0.tgz 22302 BLAKE2B 0c36fa628f4dbc370ad7b2b1b3eec0e40c8592c5732fcd1089b20647c90a6862edaab01e05eca74ba3368b4425c504b46868180b8447b67fa55afd50f95f0c10 SHA512 2e586320ee53e05b94d0fd26185362ddd5f4bab5b8adcecc46388c6a10b98bbf187d5ce9156e2677320c319827273d537e33698c3cc27107b8d42f627c4f2880
+DIST Archive_Tar-1.6.0.tgz 22303 BLAKE2B ffa4715d5c329d72c9ad57f0744ec8bde864bea1ba4141a443ae56c2fc087dad42c2fe6800cdabed34f259c77a596e89eb847a9a04a9fae570a7b24c680c843d SHA512 dda045cf0831e366705d1c6a4e8d112493adb4cc697fe54c14442bf37d850098510eb44c1079db0cf798ef884a2ff906d2f6f2915a2b7ecd5dc44494cedcf41c
diff --git a/dev-php/PEAR-Archive_Tar/PEAR-Archive_Tar-1.6.0.ebuild b/dev-php/PEAR-Archive_Tar/PEAR-Archive_Tar-1.6.0.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..bf8084fb8bc7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev-php/PEAR-Archive_Tar/PEAR-Archive_Tar-1.6.0.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
+# Copyright 1999-2025 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=8
+
+MY_PN="${PN/PEAR-/}"
+MY_P="${MY_PN}-${PV}"
+
+DESCRIPTION="Tar file management class"
+HOMEPAGE="https://pear.php.net/package/Archive_Tar"
+SRC_URI="https://pear.php.net/get/${MY_P}.tgz"
+S="${WORKDIR}/${MY_P}"
+LICENSE="BSD"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~alpha ~amd64 ~arm ~hppa ~ppc64 ~riscv ~s390 ~sparc ~x86"
+
+# bzip2 and zlib are needed for compressed tarballs, and there's one
+# call to preg_match to test paths against a pattern of files and
+# directories that will be ignored.
+RDEPEND="dev-lang/php:*[bzip2,pcre(+),zlib]"
+PDEPEND="dev-php/PEAR-PEAR"
+
+src_install() {
+	insinto /usr/share/php
+	doins -r Archive
+
+	dodoc docs/*
+
+	insinto /usr/share/php/.packagexml
+	newins "${WORKDIR}/package.xml" "${MY_P}.xml"
+}
+
+pkg_postinst() {
+	# It is not critical to complete so only warn on failure
+	if [[ -f "${EROOT}/usr/share/php/.packagexml/${MY_P}.xml" && \
+		-x "${EROOT}/usr/bin/peardev" ]] ; then
+		"${EROOT}/usr/bin/peardev" install -nrO --force \
+			"${EROOT}/usr/share/php/.packagexml/${MY_P}.xml" 2> /dev/null \
+			|| ewarn "Failed to insert package into local PEAR database"
+	fi
+}
+
+pkg_postrm() {
+	if [[ -x "${EROOT}/usr/bin/peardev" ]]; then
+		"${EROOT}/usr/bin/peardev" uninstall -nrO "pear.php.net/${MY_PN}"
+	fi
+}